The Capricorn Research Project contains a breakdown of over 20,000 charts into 72 different categories. The charts are separated into groups based on choice of career, lifestyle or specific actions or incidents that occurred in these peoples lives.

Many of the articles under the research heading will look at the astrological patterns that people in the same groups have in common, but it is also very interesting to compare all of the separate groups to see what the differences are. There are so many different ways that this could be done, for example looking at the strength of Mars in each group to see if there is a difference between boxers and painters. There are so many possibilities for analysis which would take many years to process but Capricorn Research has made a start in this direction with the Jupiter / Saturn index.

Jupiter and Saturn are polar opposites. Jupiter is the great benefic, the planet of expansion, the bringer of joy along with material benefits and success. Luck and good fortune are associated with Jupiter as well as an optimistic outlook and a view of life as an adventure. People with a strong  Jupiter are likely to enjoy the good things in life but they may also come to expect them by right. This can result in an overindulgent nature but also in a laziness because they don’t see the need to work hard for things.

Saturn is the great malefic, the planet of limitation, the bringer of sorrow and hardship. Saturn is the planet of misfortune, it gives a serious and pessimistic outlook although people with a strong Saturn would describe it as a realistic one. Life is a struggle working against obstacles and restrictions and nothing comes easily or quickly. Saturn’s role however, is to make people find self discipline and to work hard to overcome these restrictions. If people respond positively to Saturn’s teaching they can achieve great things particularly in terms of self mastery but it will be done the hard way.

In order to look at all the relative strengths and weakness of Jupiter and Saturn in these groups of charts we would have to come up with a very complicated weighting formula for the many different aspects, sign and house positions of the two planets relative to everything else. To simplify things the Jupiter / Saturn index only considers one aspect : the frequency of the Sun’s conjunction to both planets.

The results are based on the percentage score of the Sun’s conjunction to Jupiter and Saturn relative to their expected score.

If we take an orb of 10 degrees each way, that is 20 degrees and we would expect the conjunction to come up 20 times in a sample of 360.

So if in that sample we found 30 examples, it would have a score of 150% of the expected figure.

I have calculated the scores for the Sun’s conjunction to Jupiter and to Saturn relative to expected for all 72 of the vocational or lifestyle groups in the research.

The Jupiter / Saturn index result is the percentage score for the Sun conjunct Jupiter minus the same for the Sun conjunct Saturn.

So people with the highest index score would have the highest frequency of Sun / Jupiter conjunctions and the lowest of Sun / Saturn conjunctions.

We would expect people at the top end of the index to have lots of benefits in life many of them inherited and these advantages would come to them with little or no effort of their own. They would naturally feel comfortable with the authority systems around them and would express themselves easily in society.

Those people at the bottom end of the index would view life as a struggle against the world with many disadvantages that again could be inherited. They would frequently come up against authority figures that would want to restrict them and hold them back and would not feel at ease in society in general.

The results of the Jupiter / Saturn Index are quite astonishing.  The group that comes top by a massive distance is the sample of 229 Royal Families. Their index score is 125, and the next highest is Lawyers with 81.

The Royals result is made up of the highest Sun / Jupiter conjunction figure of 204% and a relatively low Sun / Saturn figure of 79%.

Its important to know that the sample for Royal Families does not actually include Rulers. There is a separate sample of 118 Rulers which perhaps surprisingly has a Jupiter / Saturn index figure of zero. These Rulers have a high Sun / Jupiter figure of 137% but they also have exactly the same high Sun / Saturn figure.

This finding could be explained by the view that whilst rulers undoubtedly have all the advantages associated with a strong Jupiter they also experience an acute level of responsibility and in many cases have had to sacrifice much of their own personal lives to their role, characteristics that would be linked with a strong Saturn. A good example of this is our Queen who has a very strong Saturn at the top of her chart.

The Royal Family group may contain a few characters who will probably go on to become rulers themselves, like Prince Charles and William, but the vast majority of them have been taken from past royalty so it is essentially a group that receives all the benefits of a royal birth but very few of the responsibilities of actual rule.

It is a quintessentially Jupiterean experience of vast inherited wealth and privilege. In most of these cases the individuals concerned have not had to work like the rest of us and any that chose to do so would have explored avenues of interest to themselves and certainly not been required to do so in order to survive.

Out of all of the 72 groups, Royal Families are the one that would be expected to top the Jupiter / Saturn index, having all the Jupiter benefits and relatively few of the Saturn hardships purely because of the apparent accident of birth. Of course astrology proves that these things are no accident. The fact that the Royals lead the index by a staggering distance is yet another extraordinary confirmation of our wonderful subject.

This is only part of the story, however.

If the inherited benefits of the Royals help them to the very top of the index, which group would we expect at the bottom ? It would naturally be a group of people who come into the world with a major disadvantages  materially, socially and psychologically. These issues would impact throughout their lives and any success would have to come from their own hard work and establishment of a strong inner identity that wasn’t dependent on external factors. In other words a truly Saturnian group.

It is a scarcely credible fact that the group at the bottom of the Jupiter / Saturn index, again by a massive distance is the group of 88 Adopted subjects.

Out of all of the groups involved the Adopted subjects are the ones with clearly the least inherited benefits and the loss of those fundamental relationships with natural parents that the vast majority of us take completely for granted. Indeed we take these things so much for granted that it is hard for us to understand what an advantage they in fact are.

The Adopted group is an absolute opposite of the Royal Family group and the actual results provide a bizarre mirror image view. Whilst the Royals scored a staggering + 125 with the next highest group getting + 81, the Adopted group scored  – 123 with the next lowest group on –  93. The Adopted group’s score is made up of a very low Sun / Jupiter at 61% and an extremely high Sun / Saturn at 184%.

This finding on its own should be enough to prove astrology to most people.

The Jupiter Saturn Index is an interesting astrological scale. It cannot be the final word on the relative impact of both planets as there are so many astrological factors.

Research on a wider scale might reveal similar trends from the other aspects between the Sun and Jupiter and Saturn. It would also be worth looking at the aspects of other planets to these two, particularly the Moon and Mars. We could also look at the relative sign and house positions of the two giants to see what impact they have. Capricorn Research is keen to look at some of these areas in time.

But the absolutely staggering fact of this index based simply on the conjunctions to the Sun is that the Royal Families come top by a country mile and the Adopted group come bottom by much the same distance. So whether you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth or you’ve decidedly drawn the short straw seems to be very much in the province of that bringer of joy Jupiter or the bringer of sorrow Saturn.

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